[757labs] Updates. Floors, mounts, lights, oh my

[Geoff Parsons]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:52 PM, ethan at 757.org wrote:

> 
> Cleaning lady hooked us up with a machine and basically all the crud of 
> gone from the floors. But there is still this milky white left over stuff 
> that has to be scrubbed off the floor. So that is the new fun. There was 
> LOTS of dirt, and because of that it was hard to really get clean water to 
> scrub with.

Wasn't that kind of part of the deal... You strip, you CLEAN, you polish... Did you just strip and now you're leaving the floors with no wax?

> I just sealed a deal for $225 for a box of AMX parts. This is two 5.5" 
> color touchscreens that you mount in the wall (or in a cute box on the 
> wall in our case). Also, 5 plates (like light switches) that feature 8 
> push buttons to control whatever. These plates have a full computer on the 
> back that talk on the AMX bus. This is GOOD news. And what's more, the box 
> also includes a plate that has a LCD screen with push buttons that mounts 
> in a lightswitch hole, so it has like 6 or 8 buttons and you can program 
> it to do whatever (labels change, etc).
> 
> Still need AMX CV10 panels, though. Hmmm I setup bid sniper to snipe on 
> one, but the power went out here. Doh, it missed the auction. I would of 
> had it.

AMX stuff is all you - don't know what all we'll need. Happy to help with the coding though.

> Today the plasma mount and projector mount should be at my door, along 
> with some other bits. I'm going to grab them before the FIRST meeting, in 
> case we get out of the FIRST meeting early, maybe I'll look at mounting 
> the mount for the plasma.

Awesome. Mounting stuff is going to be a bitch in the cement i would imagine...

> Still haven't put in the dox with Cox to move the intarwebs. I need to 
> put together the 2nd rack upstairs to accomodate the hardware.

Teh intarwebz! Adam has a N router for us he's willing to throw in.

> Supposed to buy 5 chairs frmo that lady this week too, maybe tomorrow 
> during lunch.

I can grab the truck when we need it. 

/G